The annual UK-TUG Speaker Meeting and AGM will take place on Saturday, 9th November at Trinity College, Oxford, OX1 3BH. The speaker meeting will begin at around 10 am and normally runs to between 4 pm and 5 pm, depending on the number of talks presented and time required to deal with the formal AGM business. Attendance at the speaker day is free for UK-TUG members, and a light lunch…

The UK TeX Users’ Group (UK-TUG) will be arranging a presentation of the very popular course ‘LaTeX for Beginners: Using LaTeX to Write a Thesis’ in the summer. The course will be taking place in London on the 2nd of August 2013, starting at 9:30 am and running to approximately 4:30 pm. Content will include: Editing and compiling LaTeX documents Logical structure Chapters, sections, and other document divisions Including graphics…

This year, the committee experimented with recording the Speaker Meeting talks, which are now available on our Vimeo channel. The recordings this year contain audio and slides. The experiment looks pretty successful, so next year we may try to capture the ‘live demo’ screens too!

The annual Speaker Meeting and AGM took place yesterday. We had a mix of talks, discussion and of course the AGM. The talks were recorded: we hope to make these available soon. Morning Session The day began with informal discussions over coffee: there are relatively few opportunities to meet up with other TeX users, so this is an important part of the day. Turnout this year was good, and the…

The 2012 UK-TUG AGM will be held on Saturday 20th October at 14:00. The meeting will take place as part of the UK-TUG Speaker meeting at Trinity College, Oxford, OX1 3BH. We hope that as members as possible will be able to attend the AGM and the Speaker meeting. Election for Chair The two-year term of office of the Chair, Alan Moon, finishes at the end of the AGM. Anyone…

The annual UK-TUG speaker meeting will take place on Saturday 20th October in central Oxford. Attendance will as usual be free for UK-TUG members and a sandwich lunch will be available. The event typically runs from around 10 am to 5 pm: the full schedule is still being arranged. The committee hopes to have a varied programme of talks and discussion on the day. We are therefore looking for speakers…

The UK TeX Users’ Group (UK-TUG) will be arranging a presentation of the very popular course ‘LaTeX for Beginners: Using LaTeX to Write a Thesis’ in the summer. The course will be taking place in London on the 23rd of July 2012, starting at 9:30 am and running to approximately 5 pm. Content will include: Editing and compiling LaTeX documents Logical structure Chapters, sections, and other document divisions Including graphics…

In the UK-TUG inbox today, we were informed of a new project: OERT: Open Educational Resources for Typography. This project aims to make high quality learning resources on typography and type design available to every student in the world. The resources will be completely free and open, like Wikipedia.

The UK TeX Users’ Group (UK-TUG) periodically runs training courses in using LaTeX. We are very pleased to announce a presentation of our beginners course, loosely entitled ‘Using LaTeX to write a thesis’. Content will include Editing and compiling LaTeX documents Logical structure Chapters, sections, and other document divisions Including graphics Creating tables Bibliographies Dealing with large documents The course will be taking place in central London on the 6th…